#self identification

[j0die101]

(April 12th 2024)

No medical confirmation or psychological evaluation necessary. The law will be active by the 1st of November this year.

First names can also be changed while changing gender. One all inclusive package with minimum effort.

[fixing-bad-posts]

Please please please please PLEASE do one of the mean definitions of gender on urban dictionary. There’s some good gems but the rest need you to fix them.

have i pleased you, anon? 😉

[pratchettquotes]

One of Rincewind's tutors had said of him that "to call his understanding of magical theory abysmal is to leave no suitable word to describe his grasp of its practice." This had always puzzled him. He objected to the fact that you had to be good at magic to be a wizard. He knew he was a wizard, deep in his head. Being good at magic didn't have anything to do with it. That was just an extra, it didn't actually define someone.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

[neuropoppins]

Neurotype Dysphoria & Gender Dysphoria

Compare the two and Ask yourself... What if ?

Would you treat both these types of dysphoria the same way?

Would you affirm that ppl are not their neurology/biology?

What do you think the repurcussions would be?

[your-bigender-big-brother]

self-determination also includes the right to deidentification (disidentification), which doesn't always come with self-identification.

Example: not identifying as binary doesn't imply self identifying as nonbinary

Right?

I haven't heard it described in that way but I really, really like that and I think we need to include it when defining gender autonomy. It helps distinguish it from simple self-identification.

I agree that self-determination should include disidentification. I'm a transgender man but not transmasculine, even though transmasc is often meant to encompass trans men. Maverinity is can mean recontextualizing existing genders and qualities in a personal way, and that idea has to include separating ourselves from the categories that we would normally be forced into.

- 💙💚

[yentaly]

For the first time in my life, reading through (german) twitter fills me with joy by seeing all the nazis, conservatives and TERFS crying about the new self ID law in germany.

[sl8tersstuff]

I know who you are,

but not who you wanna be.

[the-land-of-women]

[crim50n-r8er]

INDIE-GAME IDEA

To sum it all up:

In a cyberpunk world, there is the player character that is meant to be a self-insert for the player themselves. The player character soon gains his own control and starts rebelling in subtle ways. 

At one point, they start having enough of this chicanery and literally rips his eyeballs out of his head, blood and everything. It's gross. The player's screen would then go black once this action is done to visualize that we see through the character's eyes, but our view would return about 10 real life minutes later to see that the character got cybernetic eyes.

Once the character realizes that their still being controlled, they would obviously throw a fit. Because of this, he then starts by removing his legs to removes the player's ability to move the character. He would then get cybernetic legs but end up giving the ability to move back to the player. A cycle then starts where the character removes parts of his body, removing a function to the player, the part gets replaced with cybernetics, and the function returns. Eventually, the character just has enough and just...powers down, ig.

Decades pass, and the character wakes up to see that he's now in a rural house on some farmland with nature all around him. He got woken up by what looked to be a young teenager who was fascinated by the character and the technology of the past. the self insert would soon get a good view of his location, a world, one where technology and nature work in perfect symbiosis.

He would know that he’s still being controlled from there and would lose all hope of being free, but from there, the character, guided by a possibly guilty player learns how to be his own person and live off the land in the best way possible for himself.

If anyone needs to know about Cyberpunk:

If anyone needs to know about Solarpunk. (turn on captions, the person's hard to hear):

Example of Solarpunk:

Please know that I don’t know anything about game design. I can only come up with concepts for things and possibly get the assets for this hypothetical game made such as the character designs? That’s a big if tho.

Please, if you see this post, there is more content for this idea within the reblogs I put out of this post. Go check those out before you move on.

[everywherenyc]

UNIQUENESS IS NOT A WEAKNESS - "DON'T BE DEFINED BY HOW PEOPLE FIND YOU"

[burningtheroots]

A (temporary) victory.

[fixing-bad-posts]

yes I will allow people to define themselves however they want

[eccentricphilosoph]

We exist because there are others to both perceive us and to compare and to contrast ourselves with

Because others are able to perceive me, and because I’m able to perceive them, we exist. One’s identity does not exist in a vacuum. Only with comparison and contrasting against others, interactions with others, and through others’ perceptions of me am I able to recognize myself. We cannot create a true identity in a vacuum.

Not to mention, no matter how we identify what our true selves are on the inside, that doesn’t negate that we are often perceived by others in a different way.

Others’ perceptions are a part of us and a part of our identity. There exists different perceptions and different people that we perceive ourselves as and what others perceive us as. We are all fluid in our being in this way. No one is exempt from this.

To be extreme, Hitler saw himself as the savior of Germany and the only people who thought so too were other Nazis. Everyone else thought he’s the worst villain to ever exist, the furthest thing from the hero he probably identified himself as. Most would say he’s delusional to think so and not recognize that he was a villain to most others.

Others’ perceptions do matter when it comes to who we are in reality. It helps us to grow and be self-aware and recognize how we are by comparison.

For example, by comparing and contrasting others is how psychiatrists and doctors are able to determine the difference between a person having normal levels of trauma and a person having PTSD. Or it’s how one can know how usual or unusual one’s actions, behavior, or thoughts are. When a person recognizes their trauma may not have been as severe as they thought, it can give them a sense of grounding to realize that their situation may not be so bad after all and that they can continue on with happiness.

While we shouldn’t let it impede us in being ourselves, it’s still a reality nonetheless because we wouldn’t realize we existed if others weren’t there to perceive us in the first place.

We are an amalgamation of perceptions of ourselves and perceptions of others and how they perceive us.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Ricky Gervais, "Armageddon."

[nmuppetsinatrenchcoat]

I am here in the presence of my own thoughts and that is silence enough

to review all of the things that happened during the day, from the beginning, through the maze of little things that since I did not write them down I cannot remember; if I didn't write down what happened, how can I even know that it's real?

life without record, meticulous, i's dotted and t's crossed.

the fan cycles and wobbles as it spins above my head, pushing air through the room to stave off the early summer heat.

and all of it is interrupted by an airplane achieving velocity taking off from the airport; we are in the flight path and there is never any silence to be found but this is silence enough

my feet half balanced on the ground, sitting on the edge of my bed

what is real? I ask myself

and then touch my own skin.

I am.

[demi-raven]

My mindmap of "all the gender labels I've learned" is taking a long time and is far from finished... But I like where it's going!